"I
see a future where we keep our promise to children," she told an
audience of nearly 400. "I can tell you that we have, right here in our
backyard, exactly what it takes to build the best school system in the
nation."

Opening the program, Dr. John Lee Evans, President of the
Board of Education, said that the focus of the meeting was on Vision
2020, the Board of Education's roadmap for the future, but that we also
needed to look to the past.

"All five of us are products of public
education in schools across the country," Evans said of the district's
Board of Education members. "We owe a debt of gratitude to our parents’
generation. They believed in public education. We believe that every
student in San Diego Unified today should be provided the same
opportunities to succeed that the five of us had."

Supt. Marten
and President Evans also introduced the first members of the San Diego
Unified School District Hall of Fame. San Diego City Council Member Todd
Gloria (interim mayor in 2013-14) was introduced as the first member of
the Hall of Fame, which will recognize graduates of San Diego Unified
School District schools.. Go to Hall of Fame web page.Download Hall of Fame photo (4.2 mb)